Blackpool v QPR 14Mar23 6 - 1 FT 19th/42pts

I think we must have used the last of our energy reserves in the over exuberant celebrations after the Watford game because we looked drained. Dickie was his normal slow immobile self, Dieng was so weak that he even found the ball too heavy to hold. 

Blackpool targeted Drewe and in fairness to him the rest of the team gave him no help. We caught the hornets out on Saturday with our change of formation and Ainsworth's decision to play hoof ball and it worked. The tangerines had done their homework, made 6 changes and gave our two makeshift wing backs a torrid time. Ainsworth seemed as stunned as the rest of us that after a clean sheet on Saturday we had so quickly returned to the disastrous disorganised defending of previous games. We've had 4 different managers/coaches and still can't defend a set piece.

With 9 games to go we desperately need the finishing line and it might only be the failure of others that keeps us in this league. To compete in the Championship our squad is nowhere near good enough and our youngsters are nowhere near good enough or experienced enough.

This was Ainsworth's heaviest defeat as a manager and with fellow strugglers Birmingham our next game it will take some effort from him to lift the spirits.